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[This followup was posted to aus.computers.java and a copy was sent to 
the cited author.]

In article <3745CCE4.D778E9D1@ihug.com.au>, jho@ihug.com.au says...
|  Fred Ghelem wrote:
|  
|  > You have to change the Locale
|  
|  The problem is how to set it to be the same for the place where the
|  program is run?  how to get the locale  to be the same as the computer
|  which the program is running on??
|  What I have so far....
|  
|      TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getDefault();
|      Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance(tz);
|      System.out.println("ID:" + tz.getID()+"  HOUR_OF_DAY: "
|                                              + rightNow.get(
|  Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY ));
|  
|  and i get this under jdk1.1.7 in linux
|  
|  ID:EST  HOUR_OF_DAY: 17
|  
|  but if I get the REAL time/date of my linux box by typing 'date' in
|  console...i get
|  Sat May 22 07:13:52 EST 1999
|  
|  Which is a BIG difference...the timezone is correct, but hour is still
|  not. :(

Did you try using Locale.getDefault() for your timezone etc?

dIon